Felipe Alou famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I was afraid of last place, ... There were a lot of fears. Below .500 - I never thought I'd see that here. Then, losing 100 games seemed like a possibility, then 90 games. All of those things could have been a reality here. The grave seemed like a reality here, but the guys didn't let it happen.
-- Felipe Alou

#Reality #Games #Guy
Any time you put Matheny in, that's good managing.
-- Felipe Alou

#Good Man
Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it
-- Felipe Alou

#Baseball #Want #Montreal
No big league team is having a gathering like this 2 days before the season
-- Felipe Alou

#Team #League #Gathering
Those who feel they are clean, go ahead and throw the first rock. If you're clean, if you have not done anything wrong or been accused of anything wrong, go ahead and start the show.
-- Felipe Alou

#Rocks #Done #Firsts

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
You never really know the guy until you sit down with him.

Felipe Alou famous quotes

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